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Life under Pressure : Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Eurasian Population and Family History SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (546 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262268097
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Life under PressureDDC classification:
  • 304.6/4/09509033
LOC classification:
  • HB3581.L545 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Malthus's Perspective -- 1 New Malthusian Perspectives -- I Comparative Geographies -- 2 Living Standards and Economic Stress -- 3 Economic Stress and Mortality -- 4 Family and Community -- 5 Society and Mortality -- II Local Histories -- 6 Mortality and Social Class in Four Scanian Parishes, 1766-1865 -- 7 Mortality and Modernization in Sart and Surroundings, 1812-1900 -- 8 Mortality and Environment in Three Emilian, Tuscan, and Venetian Communities, 1800-1883 -- 9 Mortality and Household in Two Ou Villages, 1716-1870 -- 10 Mortality and Household in Seven Liaodong Populations, 1749-1909 -- III Comparative Demographies -- 11 Gender Differences in Mortality -- 12 Infant and Child Mortality -- 13 Old-Age Mortality -- 14 Agency and Demography -- Appendix: Sources and Measures -- References -- Index.
Summary: A pioneering work in comparative history and social science that compares population behavior in response to adversity in Europe and Asia.
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Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Malthus's Perspective -- 1 New Malthusian Perspectives -- I Comparative Geographies -- 2 Living Standards and Economic Stress -- 3 Economic Stress and Mortality -- 4 Family and Community -- 5 Society and Mortality -- II Local Histories -- 6 Mortality and Social Class in Four Scanian Parishes, 1766-1865 -- 7 Mortality and Modernization in Sart and Surroundings, 1812-1900 -- 8 Mortality and Environment in Three Emilian, Tuscan, and Venetian Communities, 1800-1883 -- 9 Mortality and Household in Two Ou Villages, 1716-1870 -- 10 Mortality and Household in Seven Liaodong Populations, 1749-1909 -- III Comparative Demographies -- 11 Gender Differences in Mortality -- 12 Infant and Child Mortality -- 13 Old-Age Mortality -- 14 Agency and Demography -- Appendix: Sources and Measures -- References -- Index.

A pioneering work in comparative history and social science that compares population behavior in response to adversity in Europe and Asia.

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